Radica 20Q Artificial Intelligence Game - Colors may vary since the item may come in 3 different colors
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Toys and Games Reviews of Radica 20Q Artificial Intelligence Game - Colors may vary since the item may come in 3 different colors
Customer Review: COOLEST TOY EVER MADE!!!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this at Wal-mart (less then 10 bucks) for my daughter. It worked when we tried it in the store- we were thinking of a horse. We thought that was cool but since having it at home we have been absolutely amazed. This thing is freaky!!!!! It is like it has ears or eyes or ESP or something. It probably guesses about 90% right and is even more accurate with unusual things like angel, roller coaster, snowman, pimple, and volcano then it is with very common items. However it gets those most the time too. It is amazing and the questions are so vauge- like "Is it something you would give a s a gift?" All the questions could pertain to a billion things. It is so exciting waiting for it's answer after the 20th question "it's a ......" and it's right. FREAKY!!!!
I took it to work and everybody is going to get one. I like to tell people to think of something and write it down but don't tell me what it is- they are all so amazed when it gets it right. Takes about 3 to 4 minutes to go through all 20 questions.
This toy is easy to use and the words are very clear and easy to read. Fits in your purse and you can take it a long. Great for travel or when having to do any waiting. We used it last night when we were waiting for our table at a restuarant. It made the time pass quickly.
The best money I have ever spent on a toy. Worth much more then the price. Get it- you will be amazed too!
Customer Review: AHHHH IT'S READING MY MIND!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
How does it KNOW?!
This thing is unbelievable. The amazement factor in this game stems from it asking 20 extremely GENERAL questions, and then spitting back a very SPECIFIC answer.
I agree with one of the other reviews that the attempts at humor through "trash talking", as they put it, does get old rather quickly and there's no way to turn it off exactly, but you can bypass each on an individual basis by just hitting the "Yes" button.
Oddly enough, after it guesses wrong the first time, then asks 5 more questions, then guesses wrong a second time, a lot of times the second guess is even more way off than the first guess. Other times, it guesses right the second time.
Some things that I thought of that it has correctly guessed: camera, video camera, lava lamp, fire hydrant, scarf, black widow spider, tampon, Christmas tree, lipstick, band (I wanted marching band but that was close enough), engine, volcano, chocolate chip cookie.
Things that I thought of that it has incorrectly guessed: pulsar (it said black hole, then infinity), Saturn (it said planet, that's good enough), billboard, mailbox (might have been my fault though), baby, louse, crossword puzzle.
Still, an unbelievable toy. I'm 18 and I'm smitten with it, lol. My great aunt wants one. It is so much fun! If you want some simple, clean (I assume!!) entertainment, then check this out, no matter what your age.
Customer Review: Surprisingly accurate...
Summary: 4 Stars
I'm skeptical as hell when it comes to products such as these that sound too good to be true. For a mere $10, how many people wouldn't take this low investment plunge? We all know the scams in the commercials where they only show when the product actually works. Everything else is cut out. Well, rather than become a lemming & regret my foresight by actually purchasing this perceived scam, I pulled one off of the rack & Target & played a game of 20 questions. By the time I pushed the cart into the baby isle, it guessed "Shopping Cart." Hmmm... It was right... Let's try to be a bit sneaky here... I thought of an "object" of a sensual nature. It guessed "Fetish". I guess it has a censored vocabulary but needless to say, it was definitely on the right track. When it's wrong though, boy is it wrong. My mother in law thought of a TV & its guess was "Corpse." Kind of freaked her out to the point where she didn't want to play with it anymore. Regardless, it's only $[...] & a surprisingly accurate & fun little toy. I'm sure a ton of people out there are avoiding this thing like the plague saying it has "powers of the Ouija" but it's nothing but a mini computer that can deduce it's answers based on ACCURATE responses to the questions. It's no magic 8 ball but it's bound to become a cult classic.Customer Review: How does it know?!
Summary: 4 Stars
I've played with the "20 questions" ball dozens of times. It usually begins with a rather odd question: "Is it an animal, vegetable, mineral, or other?", and there are plenty of other silly-sounding questions asked as times goes by, but after 16-24 questions, the machine usually knows the right answer. Since it sometimes asks more than 20 questions to figure it out, I guess it's a misnomer to call if 20Q, but the fact that the machine guesses correctly with a relatively small number of clues is surprising anyway. I know the intelligence of the machine is because of the way it was programmed, but whatever crew worked on the computer programming made a very clever device!
The newer versions have "maybe" and "I don't know" buttons, which can be more helpful for the player, but I personally don't like these additions.
There have been times when the machine couldn't guess the item I was thinking about. (In fact, the one time I thought of a mineral, it couldn't guess what I was thinking!) However, you would have to think of something extremely unusual to confuse the machine. Hey, I guess part of the fun of playing with this over and over IS to try and confuse the machine!
I've given these out as gifts several times. They're fun for all ages 8 and over.
Customer Review: The Devil Box
Summary: 5 Stars
I want to add my two cents to the praise for this very addictive toy. I don't know who made it but I bought my daughter one this past Xmas from sharper image. When we started playing with this thing it not only amazed us but had us racking our brain trying come up with something this little toy (and I use that word loosely) could not guess was in our minds. It got so intense my daughter, who is nine years old, began to believe that this thing could hear us talking. She wasn't the only one because on New Year's day my wife took it to a brunch one of our neighbors gave to celebrate 2005 and grown men were taking it and running off to different corners of the house to make absolutely sure that this gadget was not getting the answers from someone else in the room. They began calling it "The Devil Box". It is truly a wonderfully stimulating device. Best purchase for the cost. Now for some crazy reason you can't get these at sharper image anymore. Their mistake cause I came back to buy 10 more to give as gifts to my special friends. It's the best Item they had there besides their Quadra air filter.
I have to say that I prefer the ones that are oval and can fit in your pocket to the round ball type ones. Just my preference.